CISL Daily Bulletin

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Casper compute nodes, Campaign Storage temporarily unavailable April 11

March 14, 2023

CISL staff will perform maintenance on the Campaign Storage file system from approximately 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. MDT on Tuesday, April 11. During this time, /glade/campaign will be unmounted from Casper and data access nodes and will not be available through Globus. The Casper PBS queues will be halted to prevent batched applications from running until Campaign Storage is accessible again. The Caspe...

Registration open for Improving Scientific Software Conference

March 13, 2023

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly’s 2023 Improving Scientific Software Conference is open for registration. The conference will focus on the scientific software lifecycle, from designing and building software to managing output data and ensuring discoverability and reproducibility. It will highlight successes, opportunities, and challenges from emerging technologies with an emphasis on too...

Derecho weekly update

March 13, 2023

The Derecho project team continued work on addressing hardware and software problems that surfaced and plans to start acceptance testing later this week or early next week. CISL also published additional new documentation for Derecho users, as announced in this Daily Bulletin article.

No system downtimes for week of March 13 - 17

March 10, 2023

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

New documentation published for Derecho users

March 10, 2023

Additional new documentation about using the Derecho system and other NCAR high-performance computing resources is now available on the Advanced Research Computing portal. • Information on compiling code on all NCAR resources – including Derecho – is provided in Getting started with NCAR systems. • New Derecho-specific documentation made available recently includes basic environment details an...

Globus services temporarily unavailable Saturday

March 8, 2023

Globus transfer services will be unavailable for up to two hours beginning at 9 a.m. MST on Saturday, March 11, due to a planned vendor database upgrade. For additional information, see the corresponding Globus announcement.